UPA-A Certified Paddle Status Tracker

The United Pickleball Association of America (UPA-A) publishes the approved-paddles list that determines whether a paddle is legal for play on the PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball — the professional circuit's governing body for equipment certification.

We fetch that list, normalize it, and match each entry to the PickleSwaps paddle catalog by brand and model. Paddles we can't confirm on the list are marked "Not on UPA-A list" rather than assigned a guessed status. UPA-A doesn't publish an under-review or delisted equivalent, so "Not on UPA-A list" never means "rejected" — many excellent paddles are USAP-approved and simply haven't been submitted to UPA-A's separate pro-circuit program.

PickleSwaps carries paddles approved by USAP, UPA-A, or both — the two bodies serve different circuits (recreational/USAP tournament play vs. the pro PPA Tour / MLP circuit) and neither supersedes the other. See the USAP status tracker for the separate USA Pickleball approval and delist status of every paddle we list.

Every row on this page links directly to UPA-A's own record — we are an index, not a substitute. If you see a discrepancy, please trust UPA-A's source list and email us so we can correct our match.